David Cowley Art is a PHP, CSS and HTML portfolio site for the artist David Cowley.
I created this during my short time at Glasseye, I was the sole designer and developer on this project. The site is going for a minimalist design and feel, to complement and show off the work but not intrude on visitor’s experience of David’s work. Slimbox, a lightweight clone of the popular JavaScript component was used to display all the images in an overlay.
I was part of the team at Emak Mafu that built this 100% flash AS3 site with an AMF PHP backend for an architect.
I created components to display 100% of the text and images on the site, I also created the project page component and the thumbnail people explorer in the contact section.
I was part of the team at Emak Mafu that built this 100% flash AS2 site with an AMF PHP backend for a North Sea oil producer.
I created components to display 100% of the text in the website, all of the images and videos via an overlay.
The video component extended the FLV Play back component and I created a custom skin swf for it.
RaVis (Relational Analysis Components) is part of the BirdEye “a community project to advance the design and development of a comprehensive open source information visualization and visual analytics library for Adobe Flex.”
The RaVis components all you to create interactive data visualisation interfaces for the analysis of relational data sets such as social networks, organisation trees, navigation systems and anything else you can think of.
To create this example I followed an article I beta tested for the Flash&Flex Developer’s Magazine.
Once you get to grips with setting up the project and components it’s really easy, this was my first proper dive into flex and I found it to be quite manageable.
The data for this example and the ones on the project website are loaded in form an xml file and are very basic, for example to make 2 nodes and connect them takes as little as this code:
// the first node
//<node id=”1″ name=”Food” desc=”Stuff you can eat” nodecolor=”0×333333″ nodesize=”50″></node>
// the second node
//<node id=”2″ name=”Dairy Products” desc=”milk and stuff ” nodecolor=”0xFFE76B” nodesize=”15″></node>
// the connection between them
//<edge fromid=”1″ toid=”2″ edgelabel=”is a group of” color=”0×000000″></edge>
More data is revealed as you drill down – double click on the ‘cow’ node.
This mashes up a paperervision globe with the geo codes from yahoo maps.
All the data is obtained via a call to yahoo service that sends back some xml, then a point is put on the map.
